Moosoo-biwa
[Жанр] | Shomyo |
[Также известный, как] | The Lute of the Blind Monks |
Moosoo-biwa appears on the following albums
Альбом | Исполнитель | |
Musical Anthology of the Orient, Unesco Collection Vol 4 | ||
MOSO-BIWA, "The lute of the blind monk". As a spiritual exercise blind monks used to sing passages from the sutras to the accompaniment of the bass-lute. Today this obsolescent tradition is only to be found in the Genseiho-guild of the Tendai Sect on Kyushu. There are still two schools, the Myouon-in school and the Sei-rei school. The recorded example is performed in the style of the Sei-rei school. It is a passage from the Suvarna-prabhasa-sutra, in Japanese Konkomyo-kyo. Performer: The Rev. Gyoshun Ogawa Recorded by Eta Harich-Schneider in the Kwanze-on-ji, an old temple on Kyushu, on August 7th 1957 |